The new modules may be either 100%pure python, or may be extension modules written in c, or may be collections of python packages which include modules coded in both python and c. The details distutils needs to do that installation are contained in setup. However, if you have a distutils more recent than your python, you might want to install it. Greg wards installing python modules is a good introduction to the end user of distutils. The package i work on performs runtime code generation in cython and compiles via the cython pyxinstall command. The licenses page details gplcompatibility and terms and conditions. As a popular open source development project, python has an active supporting community of contributors and users that also make their software available for other python. The same source code archive can also be used to build. I have recently used distutils for the first time and thought i would share what i have learned.
I can specify the compiler used by this function by generating a distutils. Installing python modules this is for endusers, system administrators, and python programmers who need to install thirdparty modules to their existing python installation. How to install pythondistutilsextra on debian unstable. You can compile and link your python extensions yourself, but distutil is the preffered way it will make all the necessary calls to the different compilers, call swig if necessary and your extensions will be easier to. Distributing python modules legacy version python 2. This is the official package maintaining project at ubuntu. Historically, most, but not all, python releases have also been gplcompatible. This mailing list was originally created to discuss the design and implementation of the distutils standard library module for python. The goal of distutils is to make building, packaging, distributing, and installing python modules, extensions, and applications painless and standardized. According to this conversation, you cant just use distutils. All this is based on my own hacking and struggling to get things to work. If you download a current python documentation set, you get a version. After installing the compiler tools, you should ensure that your version of setuptools is uptodate for python 3.
To remove the python distutils extra package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from debian sid. Build egg, source, and window installer distributables. At its heart, cython is a superset of the python language, which allows you to add typing information and class attributes that can then be translated to c code and to cextensions for python. This package contains the distutils module from the python standard library. A list of python modules that distutils will manipulate. Automatic defaults are provided for the debian package, but many aspects of the resulting package can be customized via a configuration file. Anyone can join, and there are lots of tutorials and info about creating packages, of all types, which include the above python packaging guide. You can vote up the examples you like or vote down the ones you dont like. This package uses the distutils python standard library package and follows its conventions of packaging source distributions.
It focusses on using the distutils, but also covers older ways of installing python modules and extensions. If you also want to delete configuration andor data files of python. Python packaging user guide python packaging user guide. The distutils own setup script, shown here, is used to install the package into. A list of standalone script files to be built and installed. Design proposal python distutils sig prerequisites. A list of python packages that distutils will manipulate. The distutils install command is designed to make installing module. Python package index tutorial by jeremy hylton covers the use of the. Although pythons extensive standard library covers many programming needs, there. For most unix systems, you must download and compile the source code. This module is responsible for parsing all commandline.
How to deal with the pain of unable to find vcvarsall. This document describes the python distribution utilities distutils from the module developers point of view, describing how to use the distutils to make python modules and extensions easily available to a wider audience with very little overhead for buildreleaseinstall mechanics. How to install python3distutilsextra on debian unstable. Python to debian source package conversion utility. This document covers using the distutils to distribute your python modules, concentrating on the role of developerdistributor. Bug reports and especially tested patches may be submitted directly to the bug tracker to report a security vulnerability, please use the. It is not backward compatible with distutils and does not depend on it.
It provides the setup which is called from the setup script. Uninstall python distutils extra and its dependent packages. Building and distributing packages with setuptools setuptools. Beyond our tutorials, this guide has several other resources the guides section for walk throughs, such as installing pipsetuptoolswheel with linux package managers or packaging binary extensions. Setuptools is a collection of enhancements to the python distutils that allow. See the installation instructions in the python packaging users guide for instructions on installing, upgrading, and uninstalling setuptools questions and comments should be directed to the distutils sig mailing list.
Thus, users on the most popular platforms will be able to install most popular python module distributions in the most natural way for their platform, without having. Typically contained in a single dynamically loadable precompiled file, e. To remove the python3 distutils extra package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from debian sid. See the documentation on installing python modules for details or to customize the install process download the sources, unpack, and change into the source directory. This tutorial will focus on the bare minimum basics you need to get setuptools running so you can. The distutils package provides support for building and installing additional modules into a python installation. There are also thirdparty tools built on the top of distutils, that are using the distutils mailing list as their home. This works even if you have multiple versions of python around. Distutils module was included in standard distribution in python 1. Pythondistutilsextra download deb, eopkg, rpm, txz, xz. Python package index tutorial by jeremy hylton covers the use of the distutils register command. If an enduser wishes to install your foo module, all they have to do is download foo1. To remove just python3 distutils extra package itself from debian unstable sid execute on terminal. Now, its better described as the packaging interoperability sig, where issues that cut across different parts of the python packaging ecosystem get discussed and resolved.
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